Music: Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys

Alejandro Escovedo’s career has been a successful one, but the acclaim — and public support — for him has come slowly, without any one major hit.

If anything, at age 59 his following is still growing as he finds his groove as an Austin-based Roots musician capable of explosively rockin’ out one minute and writing a doleful, tuneful string-accompanied romantic ballad the next.